Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-29
WHAT ALL THE FUSS Is ABOUT.

WHAT ALL THE FUSS Is ABOUT.
1t is the editor of the Madison Den1Ocrat,
the Wisconsin organ of Postmaster Cen
eral Villas, who announces that the Demo
cratic press Of the country has under
taken to down the G.. A. r., the old
soldiers and the Republican party" The
Size OF the contract and the ability of the
contractor in the case wildly recall the
fate of the man who called for volunteers
to help him let 90 OF the mules tall
Phid. Press.
In the first place We must admire the
editorial acumen that compares the Re-
publican party TO n mule. The long ears
of the Press fully warrant the comparison.
In the second place, il is not the old scl-
diers that the Democratic party is going
to down" nor did the organ of Post
master General Villas" ever say so, for
there are more Democratic old soldiers who
fought for the bonny blue flag than there
are Republican. 1t is the pension agent
bandits, the camP-followers, the suffers,
the TUTTLEs, the FAIRCHHDs and the
FORAKERs that the Democratic party is
going to down" The old soldier has
always got plenty of taft from the Re
publican party but seldom Justice. Others
who had votes to sell got the first call in
pensions. Such men as FUTILE and his
followers have been almost the only bene-
fciaries OF Republican pension policy, and
they have sucked the public teat
for q big bali of the SS5O,OOO, 900
that the Republican party has
given in pensions since the
war. The old soldiers, the veterans, have
not received that $3.50, 900, 900, by many a
good round million.
The truest friend Of the soldier, that has
directed the distribution OF pensions since
the war closed is the Democrat to whom
the Republican party cOntemptuOusly re-
fers rs 1.-The physical wreck II he be
a physical wreck he was made 20
through fighting for his country. How
many of those Republicans who sneer at
his infirmities and refuse to march under
a Democratic Presidents portrait can say
the same? How many? 1t is he who has
recommended corrections in the pension
laws where they did injustice tC the sol
dier and his widow and orphans; it is he
who has given the true soldier 4 fair show
and has dealt with him literally; it is he
with a Democratic President hack of him,
who will see that the soldiers alone .getthe
pensions and that the camp followers and
the scallawags are kept away from the
public crib. OF course the camp-tOlfeWers,
the s~callawags and the pot house polite
ians are going To raise a howl about
it-haye raised a howl already.
FAIRCHILD started it in New York with
foam on his lips, disappearing GOD and
cursing our President; FUTILE took It up
in st. Louis with threats of violence
against the man who dared stand between
p~lunderers and the peoples money; FORA
KER echoed it iu Wheeling and has been
braying Il forth ever since. Ask them
what they are bowling about, and they
frantically tell you, Democratic insults
and injustice to the soldier You ask
them: What insults aud what injustice?
and they drag out the 'bloody shirt" and
yell Pension yetOes,' Despliring of
finding out what All the noise is about by
listening to It, you turn To the records.
There you iSI 10 ind a single veto of any
worthy pension bill. Oh the contrary,
you find that the soldier is dealt with
more literally By the Democrats than he
was by the Republicans. You ind that q
Democratic Commissioner OF Pensions has
corrected inequalities in the pension laws
whereby the soldier and his dependents
suffered, that were overlooked during
twenty years OF Republican rale. You
confess yourself stumped; you don't know
what to make of all the noise and fuss that
is being kicked up about the soldier. OF
course you don't. Tine aforesaid camp
followers and scalswags do not intend that
you shall. But listen: IL is only the
clamOr of q lot of baked pension agents
and political auetiOneers who are after the